by Salman Rushdie · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422628736
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«Los versos satánicos» is the novel by Salman Rushdie, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (517 pages, in Spanish).
The story begins when a hijacked plane explodes over the English Channel and the only two survivors, the actor Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, fall into the sea. After reaching an English beach, both undergo strange physical transformations that lead them to question their identity, exile, faith, and the boundary between good and evil.
Translation by J. L. Miranda of the English original «The Satanic Verses» (1988). Winner of the Whitbread Award and nominated for the Booker Prize in 1988.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in novels that address identity, religion, and freedom of expression.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
